[sc34wg3] revised draft Reference Model document N0298

[Ann M Wrightson]

Steve wrote:

>the land occupied by the
>State of Texas is not an expression of itself, it
>simply is.  A map of Texas, on the other hand,
>*expresses* things about the territory occupied by
>Texas.

However, that the land occupied by the state of Texas *is capable of being
identified as a subject*, depends crucially on a conceptual framework
(consensus on a division of the landmass into territories in that way)
represented by (a suitable equivalence class of) maps.

Ann W.